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Progressive comment and analysis from a libertarian socialist perspective.
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Radical DigressionsMassacres and Morality
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#MassacresMorality
As Israel massacres Palestinian protestors in Gaza, wat can we say about the morality of those who do the killing, and those who support it or keep silent?
Their Internet or Ours?
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#TheirInternetorOurs
The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives.
Misleading figures on greenhouse gas emissions
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Misleadingemissionsfigures
Canada’s energy-wasting economy, and Canada’s petroleum industry in particular, are urgent problems for the entire planet. We need to accept this fact and act on it, without deluding ourselves with misleading statistics.
Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Dontshoot
Police say they need better training and guidelines to deal with people in crisis.
Why aren’t we expelling Israel’s diplomats?
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#ExpelIsraelidiplomats
Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza?
Smoke seen coming out of chimney!
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Sep022017
The suspicious activities of those Russians never cease.
Only 100 cyclists
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Only100cyclists
100 bicyclists hit by cars? No big deal.
Looking for answers, creating alternatives
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Mar252018
People who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
Other Voices February 17, 2018 - Hearts and Minds: How Do People Change?
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Feb172018
If we want to change the world, we need other people, millions, eventually hundreds of millions of others, to agree that the world needs changing and to join us in changing it.
Other Voices January 20, 2018 - What are we eating?
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions8.htm#Jan212018
Food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
Other Voices December 17, 2017 - Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-12-17.htm
The struggle for collective memory.
Other Voices November 11, 2017 - Left Parties
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-11-11.htm
Left parties are trying to combine grassroots political movement organizing with electoral campaigning.
Other Voices October 9, 2017 - Meeting the Challenge of the Right
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-10-09.htm
The Right poses an increasing threat. We need to organize to meet it..
Other Voices February 12, 2017 - Race & Class
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-02-12.htm
Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
Other Voices January 22, 2017 - Disobedience
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2017-01-22.htm
Connexions Other Voices: #Disobedience. Disobedience, especially on large scale, shakes power of the rulers & increases power of those who disobey.
Other Voices December 20, 2016 - Fake News
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2016-12-20.htm
Other Voices takes a close look at the dominant actors in the fake news business: governments and the corporate and state media.
Other Voices November 27, 2016 - Alternative Media
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2016-11-27.htm
Tired of the distortions, bias, and lies of the mainstream media? Connexions newsletter features alternative media.
Other Voices November 7, 2016 - Depression and joy.
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2016-11-07.htm
There are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Where do we find joy?
Other Voices October 15, 2016 - Lurching to war.
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2016-10-15.htm
The United States and its NATO allies increasingly see war, not as a disaster to be avoided, but a normal tool of foreign policy.
A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions7.htm#Jun022015
Neoliberalism is a form of state capitalism.
Organizing for social change: A compilation of organizing resources
http://www.connexions.org/CxL-ORG.htm
Power gives way only when it is challenged by a movement for change, and movements grow out of organizing.
An alternative media list
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAlternativeMediaList.htm
Getting the news - and getting behind the news.
Seeds of Fire: Karl Marx - May 5, 1818
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions6.htm#May52013
For Marx, radicalism means going to the root.
My politics in brief
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions6.htm#October132011
A concise description of my politics.
Memory as Resistance
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions6.htm#November22012
Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory.
Grassroots Archives: Preservation as subversion?
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions6.htm#October82012
Historical memory is potentially subversive because it tells us that no form of society is permanent, and no economic system is inevitable. By reminding us that there are alternatives, it reminds us that we can choose our future.
Returning to Chess
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-ChessAgain.htm
Rediscovering chess.
Columnist traumatized by having to wait his turn
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-ColumnistTraumatized.htm
Columnist thinks people with money should get quicker treatment in emergency rooms than people who are poor. Ulli Diemer disagrees.
Medicare Myths and Realities
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-MedicareMyths.htm
Challenging the myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the Canadian health care system.
Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-Semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions6.htm#December272009
The attempt to outlaw criticism as Israel by labelling it as 'anti-Semitism' is a serious threat which needs to be exposed and challenged, but it also a sign of desperation.
Free speech - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-FreeSpeech.htm
Many people claim to be in favour of free speech: but only so long as it isn't used to express views they find unacceptable or offensive.
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/RadicalDigressions5.htm#December162008
Progressive groups and individuals within Muslim communities are struggling hard against fundamentalism and for womens rights.